Big Bob McDevit told the Press of AC that Local 54 feels vindicated in its fight with Carl Icahn now that Hard Rock has opened. McDevit said union members, “know in their heart that their fight brought this new beginning for Atlantic City,” David Danzis reports.

CIVIL RIGHTS COALITION CALLS FOR END TO CORE ELEMENT OF NJ BAIL REFORM–A coalition of civil rights groups is calling for an end to the use of computer risk-assessment tools such as the one New Jersey uses in pretrial release decisions, saying these can worsen racial disparities in the criminal justice system and lead to greater incarceration.www.njspotlight.com

TRUMP & CO. HOPE TO MAKE SALT CAP PERMANENT–New Jersey residents who’ve kept a spark of hope alive that the SALT (state and local tax) cap rolled out with Trump’s $1.5 billion tax package might be rolled back someday may just have had that spark snuffed out.www.njspotlight.com

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Two priests with ties to South Jersey were among a list of Jesuit priests who faced “credible or established” accusations of sexual abuse of minors dating to 1950 released Monday by the Roman Catholic Jesuit province which serves much of the eastern United States.

Gov. Phil Murphy yesterday vetoed a bill that lawmakers claimed was going to save the state’s county colleges millions of dollars by switching their employees into a different state health-benefits group.